Occasional random comments from a father of four.
"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in A League of their Own

10 June 2008

Speechless and sad

This kind of think really tears me up. I have two daughters and they're all I can think about when I read about this horrible act. I want to send them to self-defense classes and then lock them in their rooms. I think we've become over-protective of our children in recent years. I have to consciously try to make myself let them do things that we never thought twice about when I was a kid - like walk to a friend's house a block away. I want them to develop a sense of independence and self-reliance, but stories like this - few as they are - make it harder for me to not smother them with "no, you can't do that". Happiness will be a long time away from those families.